Bob Pegg & Nick Strutt
1973-xx-xx* ::: UK ::: Studio Demos ::: M?-ST
"Long Lost" (1st duo album era recording)

~*~ Mk2 version, carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ*, but with very lite NR ~*~

01. I Think I'll Go On Out There
02. Thursday
03. The Headrow Song

Total Time ::: 11:47

::: EXC studio quality. Check samples to run&hide, or for a few touches of greatness while awaiting delivery.
::: Warts (almost none!): Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. #02 mike crackle cleaned up but could be residue somewhere. Mk1 version has a bit of hiss.
::: CONTRAST CLAUSE: Mk2 remaster with NO EQ but very lite NR. The Mk1 NO EQ or NR remaster may be found elsewhere.
::: NOTE: LOSSLESS files that are small due to mono source & only used 1 channel after remastering (more info below).
::: "Long Lost" is a made-up title for reference due to lack of source information.
::: #01 & #2, both by Bob Pegg, have never been officially released in any form.
::: A version of #03 issued on"Bob Pegg&Nick Strutt"1st Transatlantic LP but this arrangement is very different.
::: Bob himself is mystified by the source of these studio demos, or why they were recorded.
::: Bob says this is post-"Bob Pegg&Nick Strutt"album&before"The Shipbuilder"&recorded in a proper studio.
::: These version are too polished&overdubbed to have been recorded for radio, but it's odd they are mono.
::: The original tape had a studio engineer say "cut" in the #01 fadeout, now excised.
::: Could someone PLEASE provide us w/Pegg&Strutt "Sounds on Sunday"BBC 1972-12-17 set w/"The Shipbuilder"?
::: Bob&I would LOVE to hear the missing Pegg&Strutt July'73 Peel sesion, lossless versions of '72"Country Meets Folk"sets, or other radio sets or live gigs.
::: It would be a dream come true to hear some more live Mr Fox - any line-up, regardless of quality. It must be out there.
::: Uploaded in memory of a fine musician, Nick Strutt, who passed away in late 2009.
::: Bob Pegg has been an important UK folkrocker/folkie for 50+ years. Initially he released duo LPs w/his then-wife, Carol, & they both played in the superb folkrock group Mr Fox, as did Nick Strutt, with whom Bob played in a duo for several years after Mr Fox. For many years Bob has released material primarily as a solo artist.
::: Shared with permission of Bob Pegg. SINCERE thanks for his generosity. Let's hope more artists do the same while we're still here to enjoy the music.

Recording Information ::: unknown UK studio -> master reel -> unknown(2?) analog-only generations -> unknown generation(2nd?) normal bias 2-channel mono cassette (without Dolby) -> 2021 unknown digital transfer method -> 44.1KHz/16bit WAV files -> flacs.

Playback 2021-01-xx ::: low gen studio 44.1KHz/16bit flacs -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, #01&02 -1.8%, #03 -1.5% pitch (speed) fixes applied with single pass per song after frequency analysis & with the artist's pitch verification, NO equalisation (except a couple of notches to reduce line-level hum), VERY lite noise reduction without audible artifacts to back off the low level hiss] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. (NOTE: MONO recording with MUCH higher (11-13K) R channel freq response (as opposed to Lchan 9-10K) so used only the superior R channel after remastering/patches, hence the small file sizes). Freed 2021-xx-xx.

Line-up ::: Bob Pegg - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, whistle (last 50 seconds of #03) // Nick Strutt - acoustic guitar, acoustic & electric mandolins, harmony & backing vocals.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge (or to the artist's!). If we're wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

DimeTravel 702 ::: Great(!) appreciation owed to Paul H for supplying the recording. Sincere thanks to whomever uploads this for me. ::: Corrections welcome ::: These studio demos are from a tape given to Paul H. by Nick Strutt in the early seventies, which also had 4 "demo" trax by Nick's band, Natchez Trace, circa '71. This Pegg&Strutt demo has GREAT versions of 3 songs. Aside from a Leeds live tape & this newly surfaced demo tape, the only other sources to surface of songs #01&02 are from a poor quality LOSSY radio show (1972-06-10 BBC Country Meets Folk"). If anyone can supply a lossless version of that BBC broadcast, Bob&I would be extremely(!) grateful. At any rate, the "Long Lost" demos offer us a superb, joyful version of "I Think I'll Go On Out There", a lovely version of "Thursday". We are also blessed with a rippin' studio version of "The Headrow Song" - dark & majestic. It's most fascinating to hear another studio arrangement of "The Headrow Song", without some of the added instrumentation used on the Transatlantic album. An extremely fine 12 minute previously unheard slice of Britfolk. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

NOTES from Bob Pegg: "Date of recording will be around 1973/4. The first two songs are love songs, uncharacteristically. They're also on the live recording Nick and I made at the Grove Inn in Leeds (still going strong virtually at present). The third in the sequence - same recipient - is 'She Taught Me to Dance' (NOTE - no version with this recording), which is on one of the Mr Fox 'Country Meets Folk sessions you sent many moons ago. None of them were recorded for albums. 'The Headrow Song' was on the album 'Bob Pegg and Nick Strutt'. All 3 songs showcase Nick at his best. On each my instrumental contribution was a basic fingerpicked or strummed accompaniment, with additional whistle on Headrow. Apart from that, it's Nick's show. I feel he may be playing a couple of acoustics (Martin D 35) on each track, one reinforcing the rhythm (and there are some amazing churning effects), the other ornamenting. The first track, 'I think I'll Go On Out There', also has his acoustic mandolin, a Gibson scroll. The second track, 'Thursday', features what I believe is his Fender electric mandolin. I recall it looked like a mini Telecaster (rather than a Strat) and had four, rather than eight strings. It certainly wasn't the instrument called a mando-strat, but I haven't been able to find any images of it on the internet. He didn't have it for long, but plays it on live recordings we made from that time, where it's too loud and upfront. Here it sits back beautifully in the mix. Towards the end it sounds like a steel guitar has snuck in there. Had me fooled at first, but that's the single note sustain on the electric mandolin. Not much to say about 'The Headrow Song' except that, rough edges and all, or maybe because of them, I prefer it to the album version and any of the surviving live versions. It drives along with urgency, the vocal harmonies are incisive, and the whistle solo at the end just the right length."

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